William Shakespeare Quotes
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This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.
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Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
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Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.
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This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth! And they will take it so; if not he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duty nicely.
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Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.
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All things are ready, if our mind be so.
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So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.
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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
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I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
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I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
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What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.
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Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.
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We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.
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April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
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How poor are they that have have not patients.
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O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)
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The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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What the great ones do, the less will prattle of
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O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!
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Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.
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The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.